Spaces for consumption : pleasure and placelessness in the post-industrial city / Steven Miles.

By:

Miles, Steven [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: London : SAGE, 2010Description: 209 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1412946654
9781412946650
1412946662
9781412946667

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

307.76 22

LOC classification:

HB801 .M55 2010

Contents:

The city of complicity -- The individualised city? -- Creating cities -- Consuming culture -- Architectures of consumption -- Shopping for dreams -- The spectacular mega-event -- Themed parks.

Summary: 'Spaces for Consumption' offers an in-depth and sophisticated analysis of the processes that underpin the commodification of the city and explains the physical manifestation of consumerism as a way of life.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	307.76 MIL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A506016B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-200) and index.

The city of complicity -- The individualised city? -- Creating cities -- Consuming culture -- Architectures of consumption -- Shopping for dreams -- The spectacular mega-event -- Themed parks.

'Spaces for Consumption' offers an in-depth and sophisticated analysis of the processes that underpin the commodification of the city and explains the physical manifestation of consumerism as a way of life.

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